Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Life

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

32.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.